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Weekly Photo Challenge: Red
Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery Founded in 1857, Ann Arbor’s Forest Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of Michigan pioneers, politicians, UM professors, and football coaches Fielding H. Yost and...
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Cemetery of the Week #16: Metairie Cemetery
Brunswig tomb in Metairie Cemetery Metairie Cemetery 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. New Orleans, Louisiana 70124 Telephone: (504) 486-6331 Founded: 1872 Size: 150 acres Number of interments: More than 4500,...
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Cemetery of the Week #28: Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery
Death and the Sculptor Forest Hills Cemetery 95 Forest Hills Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02130 Telephone: (617) 524-0128 info@foresthillscemetery.com Established: 1848 Size: 250 acres Number of...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Up
Stained glass window at the San Francisco Columbarium Spectacular stained glass windows adorn the Neptune Society’s San Francisco Columbarium. I particularly like this one, since it combines regular...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunset
The Crocker Angel earlier in the day I don’t have a photo from the night I watched sunset in the graveyard, but I can tell you a ghost story about it… Sunset was a line of blood carved into the sky as...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Comfort
St. John's Cemetery, San Mateo My daughter asked me yesterday, “Why do you like cemeteries so much?” “Because I find them comforting” is what I should have said. When I go to a graveyard, the world...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Peaceful
Angel in Highgate Twenty years ago this month, I went to Europe for the first time. I ended up in Highgate Cemetery by accident, after finding John Gay’s Victorian Valhalla in the bookshop in Victoria...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Journey
The Larkin monument at Cypress Lawn Thomas O. Larkin served as the only United States consul to Mexican province of Alta California during the 1840s. He was captured during California’s transition to...
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Cemetery of the Week #55: Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
The Graves family monument, Cypress Lawn Cypress Lawn Memorial Park 1370 El Camino Real Colma, California 94014-3239 Telephone: 650-550-8810 Email: info@cypresslawn.com Founded: 1892 Size: 200 acres...
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Cemetery of the Week #162: Oakland Cemetery
Photo from Wikimedia Commons Oakland Cemetery 1000 Brown Street, Iowa City, Iowa 52245 Founded: 1843 Size: 40 acres Number of interments: at least 13500 In February 1843, the Iowa territorial...
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